the foreign roots of syria's internal conflict from abroad become part of the. government's attempts to solve the crisis rejected in the last. war of words over the falklands the rhetoric between argentina and the u.k. escalate says david cameron says he's ready to fight for the audience could there be a repeat of the bloodshed thirty years ago. freedom security in the hollow was a suicide epidemic sweeps through u.s. military ranks with more troops and veterans now taking their own lives the.

international news and comment line from center here in moscow this is twenty four hours a day. it's a critical and detached from reality that's how a peace plan proposed by syrian president bashar al assad was described in washington and london while syria's key opposition group which enjoys the overwhelming support of western states has once again called for immediate regime change in a rare t.v. address to the nation present a sad offer a political road map to end the almost two years of bloody civil conflict the proposal includes dialogue a constitutional referendum and calls on alcide powers to stop funding what he described as terrorism in syria political analyst marcus papadopoulos believes there are elements within the syrian opposition that will continue fighting despite

any concessions from the government very important to make this clear in particular to western audiences who are unfortunately not read the full picture when it comes to syria the free syrian army is a lethal cocktail or various groups including many islamist groups and many groups linked to al qaida and the free syrian army is of course backed by certain countries in the west and certain countries in the region and the free syrian army has been responsible for. terrorist attacks in the last couple of peace in syria but ultimately it's got to be america turkey saudi arabia qatar they've got to stop supporting the militants people who are ideologically speaking the same people who brought about the terrible attacks in new york washington london madrid and bali. damascus is constantly insisted that what's taking place in syria is not a genuine revolution but simply mercenaries fueling unrest. takes

a closer look at how the standoff is attracting competence from far beyond the country's borders. she keeps her son's room exactly the way she left it last spring his clothes and art supplies are the only reminders she has of twenty one year old son. sami told his mother he was going to a conference in libya you wouldn't stay more than one week to ten days he went in for the whole week that he stayed there he called home every day he called in the twenty second of march and said he's coming back to tunisia but never arrived at the beginning of april i got a skype call telling me my son was captured on the border as he was crossing from turkey to syria in a group of fighters. further proof came with the syrian t.v. report in which sami was controlled amol the captor example fighters he talked about his coming from tunisia to fight for the syrian people still explanation wasn't enough to lose the minds of his parents if anything it made matters worse

these simply can't understand how intimidating man transformed into a jihadist notice all they do have this. a year ago suddenly began praying and i was very happy because i'm a muslim and i thought it was a good thing maybe after that he started going to the mosque and heard something that made me go off to syria i think the reports claim some four hundred out of the five thousand mosques are controlled by radical islamists and their followers to take part in jihad in foreign countries the exact number of fighting in syria or libya or iraq is not known but the families and friends of those who went off to fight in a foreign land are saying that even one death is already one too many especially for those who are fighting a foreign leader in a different country the government says that they're watching the situation. oh so those who have died are not convinced they believe that the government's silence is

as good as a green light for the impressionable youngsters. it's known that the last ten years most terrorist groups have tunisians in their midst the officials know about these things but don't say anything and these fighters went to libya then they went to syria by way of the turkey we're talking about more than one hundred tunisians already killed in fighting in syria. this statement is supported by united nations human rights investigators this report published at the end of two thousand and twelve more of an increasing number of fighters pouring into syria investigator said people from at least twenty nine different countries are fighting alongside syrian rebels most of them are sunni's hailing from neighboring countries but some have come to syria from this far away as america and europe they get called in for supposedly higher purpose but once they're on the ground the situation proves far more mundane. it's impossible for any arab combat some fighting in syria to get

treated whoever gets injured dies i dare them to bring me a single arab who got injured and treated in a field hospital we are being treated as cannon fodder we have the grease used to abrogate that using syrian blood for them a city got to see despite such warnings many young men in tunisia still choose to go abroad to battle infidels in the name of allah it only goes go r.t. in tunisia. meanwhile in egypt ruling in god's name reportedly doesn't come cheap thing muslim brotherhood is accused of lying to power on washington's handouts and using the money to incite violence or protests a little later we hear from one of the lawyers that brought those charges to burn. off the head of internet giant google is visiting north korea we ask an expert whether pyongyang is ready to drop its social and economic fall. all that still to come first argentina has told the british prime minister to rein

in his colonial ambitions and concentrate on his country's internal problems hardline response follows a warning from david cameron that the u.k. would fight to keep control of the falkland islands the two nations fought a war over the territory one hundred eighty to ninety seven furthest more. with asked this question in an interview whether britain would fight to keep the folks in the islands and prime minister david cameron saying of course we would say he made his position extremely clear if an attempt was made by argentina to retake the falkland islands that military treats would be the fluid by birth and so absolutely very clear on that very strong rhetoric coming from the prime minister a view that issuing this comes on the back of argentina president really making these accusations that the falkland islands stolen from argentina by britain i think she called it a nineteenth century colonialism and i think some concern for people here today that you know this is something that's very much focused on in the course of the

interview this is some of the strongest statements of course perhaps a disheartening a little bit some of the other very important issues that are happening on a national level at the moment here in the country we've got rate cuts to trial. coming in this week it's cheese day that are going to the house of commons so as a very important issues here at home at the moment of course a lot of people say which will be about fighting a war somewhere else when it when actually was fighting our own battles fear in the country on the screen nearly thirty years since we saw the end of the focus war it definitely has a very strong resonance with people here in britain that we've seen this this old me kick off again as i said if i have very strong comments from the president in argentina is also of course come in much more recent argument again because it's been discovered that there are large oil reserves of course i think that's really going to play a big part in seeing this contest over the islands to tween britain and argentina really heating up again it doesn't look like it's going away. david cameron loses

popularity at home some analysts say the renewed debate over the falkland islands could be used to distract attention from issues the government is failing to address. but david cameron it's a great issue that it's come up again because the economy here is a guy strikes in britain austerity is really biting people are very unhappy with what he's doing and so i think that they cameron is very much hope that. that will have a bring back the memories of nine hundred eighty two and the people's attentions here from the very are popular things that he's doing at home but this issue to come up now is very timely because the government is well down of the opinion polls the government is really unpopular i can't recall it becoming so popular so quickly and so i think that he will want to keep this in the news headlines species why he's reacting in such a sort of strong way. a flag dispute in northern and causes fresh loyalist violence coming up there

a few nights in belfast any more as the city has played with rioting over a decision not to fly the union flag over city hall. to well known americans the former governor of new mexico bill richardson and google chief eric schmidt have flowed into north korea the visit has drawn criticism from washington which is looking to penalize pyongyang over its recent rocket tests the mana german newspaper claims north korea's been inviting german economists to the secretive country to pave the way for foreign investment however the west's own sanctions on pyongyang of the main stumbling block in front of economic development so says dr frank from the university of vienna the big problem is actually not north korea really the receiver busters it is the reluctance of western investors to actually go to north korea a lot less the environment is not pure although the state has been trying a lot still to do have reports of us those who have difficulties with. and also

changing attitude of the government. specially chinese investors who have left the country for storage. the biggest problem i think all of us the list goes all over the us on sanctions this is easy actually it's almost impossible not to while you're section if you deal with north korea because almost anything is dual use the procedures will be checking whether you are not while lifting sanctions or very complicated because. there's also a great deal of unknowing of insecurity about what the actual rules are and my freshman is that this is keeping away the best and best those approach of the big ones escaping oppressive taxes and a finger wagging government movie star celebrates his new citizenship while others of his countrymen looking for a possible escape from more on whether heading coming out.

a nation of three cretaceous three years for charges free. range month free. three. q type free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media john darche dot com. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've done a few jerks you're covered. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been

seeing from the streets of canada. showing operation to rule the day. already held pressed fighting off a belligerent taliban and a resurgent al qaeda the u.s. military is now facing a new battle against suicides almost five hundred american troops and veterans killed themselves last year wolf in the number that died in action on he's going to check our reports on the grim statistics i was overjoyed tonight. another feel good moral boosting speech on afghanistan at the u.s. president has delivered many of those rockers trying to convince the american people that the war was worth it when you're missing a birthday or you're missing

a soccer game or or what you're missing an anniversary and those of us back home are able to enjoy it because you. when soldiers come back home they missed much more than that their own selves once you go into combat you know once you kill people and once you spend a year and an environment you are not the same person team kenny came back severely wounded from a tour in afghanistan two years ago having spent ten months in combat the vehicle on which he was a goner was blown up nine times when i got crushed by p.t.s.d. i mean. i was suicidal. but i'm married with four kids and i just couldn't find a way to kill myself and some kind of accident that my family would have to suffer. able to step back from the brink but many of his fellow servicemen were not

so fortunate. more american soldiers committed suicide last year than work killed in active service in afghanistan staggering statistics that's almost want to day when you were i think this is i can't go anymore like a lot of guys and stuff because they don't think america is back. to. normal society . officials in washington seem to be trying to present afghanistan as a success story while for those coming home it looks anything but that they do put lipstick on a pig or cancer to speak they take real you're in pain. for the mainstream media in the u.s. with their everything military their questioning of the cause of the war usually comes down to this sort of makes you the most proud about what you've done here a mindset is tested be perpetuated that the ends justify the means while those ends

are often identified in abstract terms like freedom and security what have we done we've got quite a bit i mean honestly the afghan people even from when i was a ploy in iraq and all three during the invasion you could see the iraqi people and the afghan people starting to do stuff on their own having more freedoms and stuff like that stuff like that also includes almost twenty thousand afghan civilian deaths and drug production which has gone through the roof since coalition troops have been in the country accounts like this never make it to mainstream airwaves everyone that we blame for nine eleven is dead or in jail. there is no justification for this war. there's no reason our brothers and sisters should die in the sand there is no reason that their children should go to sleep every night terrified of the next drone strike or the next move kicking down their door neither do major u.s. news channels dwell on the subject of the afghans overwhelming desire to see american troops out of their country instead another success. story on t.v.

if there was another war the war on terror continues and go somewhere else would you still go without and without a doubt yes these are paintings by a soldier's mother who was petrified her son would be deployed he never was and she counter self lucky but the fear caught up with her and inspired this series of paintings her reflections on those who have returned wounded physically or emotionally reflections that clash with the mindset that human suffering should be the price you have to pay for a cause in washington i'm going to check on. and that nineteen thirty g.m.t. cross talk guess would be debating just tell justified criticism of america's foreign policy is and how that very policy shapes and molds our world. well i don't think any nation has the right to force any system on another nation in america of course me makes a practice of it it institutionalize forcing its ways on other nations and

international law is very clear and mindless cliches just silly out there i mean i want an adult conversation here. if we're just going to if we're going to speak in cliches we're not going to get anywhere first of all historically this is just in front of the founding fathers believe very much in democracy no democracy involved of course but this idea that somehow america imposing its values across the world is the norm that's not true. and that second we're aware that later here in r.t. hundreds of protesters in belfast threw bricks and bottles at police in the fourth consecutive night of protests over decision to fly the british flag on city hall only on designated days northern ireland has been witnessing lawless violence for more than two months now jason walls from the christian science monitor says there

are deeper social reasons and the flag decision was merely a catalyst but most of us traditionally throughout history in a predominantly protestant and unionist city and the latest census results show that's not really. it's not likely it's like a republican. majority or we can refer the decision itself to fly the flag only one step to designate it there's your ticket on december third. reflects this change and that seems to be what's troubling loyalists like it so because in fact flying the flag they simply brings it into line with other british government and civic buildings one of those christians have been celebrating christmas the world over and you can catch more than a glimpse of all color and sparkle as millions gathered to celebrate go to our website for a closer look. and it's the most expensive in the

world sold for a record of one point eight million dollars discover who netted the precious catch . it's. egypt's muslim brotherhood is now accused of taking more than a billion dollars from the u.s. to pursue its quest for power a paper trail of under the table transactions has led a group of egyptian lawyers to file charges against the government and yes assad ahmad who lodged a complaint believes the alleged u.s. payments were all about preserving interests.

this money might have been beneficial for both the american side promises support for the muslim brotherhood while they in turn promised to secure american interests in egypt namely a u.s. air force base in the province of. dealing with the brotherhood as a political authority is permissible but funding it before it had even come to power is not we also believe that the brotherhood run cells tasked with provoking public unrest and violence are protests. member who quit the brotherhood spoke of such groups which carried out operations for the muslim brotherhood benefit. in bahrain the highest appeals court has upheld jail sentences for thirteen activists who were put on bars for taking part in mass demonstrations in favor of greater rights they really want to keep violently put down the protests with the help of troops from neighboring arab states more than sixty people have been killed and

thousands jailed in the last two years of nationwide protests. firefighters in northern china have managed to put out a massive fire that engulfed a shopping mall it took three and a half hours for the blaze to sweep through an area of almost ten thousand square meters and it's still unclear what started the fire some officials have pointed to welding work being carried out because of the tragedy. in iraq four protesters have been wounded by security forces as they took part in a rally against the shia prime minister nuri al maliki troops fired into the air to disperse the crowd several thousand people demonstrated in a number of sunni stronghold in recent weeks threatening the fragile balance between religious groups in the country. five minute queues of raping a young student who later died in hospital and appeared in new delhi court the judge was forced to order the media out of the courtroom after shooting i should say shouting and angry scenes delayed the pretrial hearings the rape sparked

protests across india. thousands of health workers in spain's capital madrid have come out to show that anger it cuts to the health care system it was running against regional plans to privatized several hospitals and thirty health centers much of the country is reeling from budget cuts and an unemployment rate of almost twenty five percent. europe has spent his first day as a russian citizen touring his new homeland and floating his freshly passport much to the ire of french leaders though dubbed a traitor at home he is far from the only wealthy french person to flee the country over exorbitant new taxes and one of the destinations they've been heading for is russia let's look at the taxes and that's the question at hand right now if you look at russia at the current laws we have a flat tax rate here of thirteen percent in fact france and germany they both have

complicated tax codes if you look at france forty one percent right now up to forty one percent in germany up to forty five percent as opposed to russia's thirteen percent but if this new round comes into effect in france that. mark for france goes up to seventy five percent certainly there when it comes to the global meltdown that we've been seeing for years particularly twenty twelve was not a good year for the eurozone or for much of the world indeed but somehow russia managed to avoid the global economic crisis and that is certainly the case in fact it is one of the brics countries which means it is one of the emerging markets in the world but if you look at what's been happening around europe in fact in the past year we've been seeing austerity protests we've been seeing people come into the streets who are looking for jobs and in fact the unemployment rate's if you look at greece twenty six percent if you look at the e.u. in general the average there are eleven percent if you look at the unemployment rate in russia only six point four percent the united nations is actually taking a moment to appraise russia's immigration policies that what's what about well

certainly if you look at the numbers the most recent numbers in fact show that russia is the second most desirable country for immigrants to come to only second to the united states in fact in fact it can be a little bit confusing because people look at the numbers about moscow being one of the most expensive cities for ex-pats to live with that's for ex-pats and it is true things here it is a big city it can be expensive but if you look at average cost of food it's cheaper than the rest of europe much cheaper to live here for gas prices as well i think that the real reason people come here is that you get two christmases and you get two new years. my colleagues their research and sean thomas take a trip to the heart of russia's corridor was a. grand tour of the kremlin begins right after this break i'll be back with a news team with more news for you in thirty five minutes from now.

crime is a plague of the big cities but in a tiny arkansas town of twenty five thousand it is really getting out of hand pure gold is a property crime index of more than double the national average and rape burglary and assault are also way above average poor poor gold is a dangerous place to live in but what's the answer to living in constant fear of criminals well the mayor thinks that the answer to that problem is to live in constant fear of the government how logical the mayor and police chief have a doorstop plan to send out police patrols with a ar fifteen and full swat armor to i guess intimidate the local population into submission well actually the plan is for them to stand around it ask people an important question ask them to show i.d. the answer to crime isn't a police state sending guys out with automatic weapons and body armor around just

to check people's i.d.'s like it's the berlin wall or something won't do anything a guy who breaks into your house for crystal meth money isn't going to be affected by this only the good average citizens will have to show an armed thug of their id just to go buy milk but that's just my opinion. from a bird's eye view oddly shaped trying for him by moscow's kremlin could be seen as the heart of. a small state within

a state these word walls have been protecting moscow's kremlin for more than five centuries. to even idea of its size so we decided to actually go around it before going inside we have to start right here at this. time you watch. next end of the kremlin walls is over two kilometers and if you want to go around it you better go real fast because the winters in russia a really cold it's minus ten today. the first kremlin was built out of woods boarded out a couple of times before being rebuilt in white stowed. three hundred years later the walls in a tower square faced off with the famous red rake but if you actually pulled away the red brick you would see a wall as white as

a bridal gown and some of those walls are almost six meters thick. right here on the red square wasn't defend moat filled with water and together with a ring of twenty towers it made the kremlin and inaccessible fortress known around the world. stop the watch now the tar cloud wears the witness it took us twenty seven minutes to go around the kremlin walls but what about was behind them. joining me on a journey to the heart of the kremlin to places him from the tour is he going to meet some real kremlin insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . so that you're going to be true kremlin scholar this man is practically saturated with.